Episode 8
Reading recommendations for Episode 8 of The Book Show...
In The Book Show this week, Mariella Frostrup is joined by news anchor Gavin Esler with his new book, A Scandalous Man; Fey Weldon tries to subvert the myth of the wicked stepmother in The Stepmother’s Diary; and comedy supremo Frank Skinner with his second autobiography, On The Road.
Ken Follet’s Christmas Crackers: Books For men
Lee Child: Nothing to Lose
Stephen King: Blaze
Sebastian Faulks: Devil May Care
Peter F. Hamilton: The Temporal Void
Adele Park’s Christmas Crackers: Books for women
Jane Austen: Emma
Kate Long: Swallowing Grandma
Jackie Collins: Married Lover s
Lori Lansens: The Girls
Katherine Holabird’s Christmas Crackers: Books for children
James Mayhew: Katie in London
Jill Murphy: Mr Large in Charge
Martin Waddell: Snow Bears
Quentin Blake: All Join In
Fine Line with A. N. Wilson
This week author A.N. Wilson picks his favourite line from Philip Pullman's The Subtle Knife
We also visit Marina Lewycka's bed in Write Place.
Guests’ literary heroes and heroines
Every week our guests reveal who their heroes and heroines are from the literary world. Gavin Esler’s favourite character comes from Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep; Fay Weldon finds a literary heroine in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; and Frank Skinner’s favourite fictional character is from Herman Hesse’s Narcissus And Goldmund. But who are the literary heroes and heroines they have chosen from these books?
